“Light is a loaded thing,” says photographer Robert Adams. Speaking both of a physical connection with light, and an appreciation for its naturally metaphorical qualities, Adams describes his intimate relationship with light, even claiming that his connection with the sun’s rays would affect him in the confinements of his dark room. “Kenneth Clark remarked in one of his books, that the thing that distinguished a landscape painter is an especially intense, emotional, response to light,” says the artist, “and I do believe that that’s true.”

As a photographer of environments typically void of human presence, it is clear that Adams’ infatuation with light is passionately explored through his work. “Light, it is a physical thing that you’re working with. It’s also obviously metaphor. It’s what you’re working with to arrive at metaphor,” says the artist, “It’s the age old symbol for truth, or an expression of truth… But fundamentally though, it’s just a deeply mysterious, compelling ingredient for your understanding of life and your response to it.”